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Friday, May 29, 2015

I recently took about a 6 week hiatus from Facebook.Like most of you, I had deactivated my
account before but this time was different.I possessed a very strong urge to pursue my solitude, and Facebook just
didn’t fit into the equation.The months
leading up to my break, Facebook started to feel more like more a chore and
less like a source of entertainment.The
social media app that was designed to bring people closer together started to
make me feel strangely alienated from everyone, including my “real life
friends”.I noticed that spending time
on Facebook started to drain my energy and shift my focus onto things that were
not important.I started to be left with
a very dissatisfied taste in my mouth and it shouldn’t have been that way.Here are some of the reasons that I was able
to pinpoint that led to my Facebook “detox”:

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Oftentimes when people don’t choose
you, it has nothing to do with you.The
truth is, some people don’t even love themselves enough in order to have the ability to
choose themselves.They’ll tell you that
you have too many requirements, that your standards are too high and that you
don’t make it easy for them.Re-read the
last part of that last sentence:You don’t make it easy for them.

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Note: I wrote the following approximately 3 months ago, when I was just beginning a new temporary working assignment. It was my first time in a full time job since before I'd gone back to school, and I had a lot of doubts about my abilities and effectiveness. The job opportunity turned out to be a really awesome experience, and I am excited at how far I have come in such a short period of time.

Thursday, May 7, 2015

It’s been awhile, but I’m back, and happy to be here I might
add.I may know some of you from the
world of blogging, some of you from social media (as far back as MySpace lol), some
of you I may actually know in real life and some of you I may not know at all.Whatever the case, I’m happy that you’ve made
your way here to visit my blog.